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Pucker up for soursop
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/01/2012
» Happy New Year to all readers. The year 2012 starts today, and may it bring you prosperity not only in monetary terms, but also the things that matter most in life, namely good health, love and happiness.
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Give 'em shelter from the storms
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 08/01/2012
» Glanz Ang, a friend who lives in Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines region of Mindanao, emailed me in November to express his concern about the floods that were devastating Bangkok. "I hope your house is not affected. Please update us on how you are doing. We are worried about the flood in your place," he wrote.
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The wood that could
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 22/01/2012
» During a trip to the Philippines in November, I tried to find an old schoolmate I hadn't contacted since high school. I was told his family had moved, and that he now owned a furniture shop. As I had promised a mutual friend that I would find him, I looked for him where I was told he had moved, along a country road lined by gmelina trees. I did not find him, but I did learn something.
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Jack of all trades
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 29/01/2012
» James Anderson wants to know what causes the fruit of a large jackfruit tree behind the school where he teaches in Thung Lung, Songkhla province, to turn black and rot. "The fruit are huge _ the size of the trunk of a small child _ but they are covered with disease," he wrote. " [They have] large gaping dark black or dark brown holes with putrid brown juices dripping from them, and all eventually just fall to the ground rotten.
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Be sweet to yourself with soursop
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 19/02/2012
» The Jan 1 article on soursop (Annona muricata) generated letters from readers. Dr Kittipongse Sumipan, a retired scientist who worked at the National Research Council of Thailand, wrote to say that the fruit is common in his hometown of Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand.
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Hard to find trees turn up full of flavour
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 25/03/2012
» A reader named Malcolm wrote me an email to say that he is now the proud owner of a 10m fruit-bearing black sapote (Diospyros digyna). He said he grew it from a seed that he obtained from a tropical fruit farm in Australia 10 years ago.
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Some plants not as thirsty as you d-think
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 15/04/2012
» Regular reader Ole Tarp sent me an email from Hua Hin seeking advice about his plumeria, or frangipani tree. ''It is blooming beautifully this month,'' he wrote. ''The problem is that it will do so only one month per year.
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Grow your own when prices go bananas
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 20/05/2012
» During my last visit to the Philippines in November last year, I bought bananas for 100 pesos (73 baht) a hand or bunch. I thought those were the most expensive bananas I had ever bought. I told my sister, who simply loves the fruit, that they would have cost me only about 20-25 baht in Bangkok. I never dreamed that only six months later, I would see bananas of the kluay hom variety selling for 75 baht a hand at Klong Toey market, and 80 baht at Pak Klong market.
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Get your fair share
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 03/06/2012
» Better late than never. This seems to be the slogan of the Kaset Fair, which used to be held for nine days every year from the last Friday of January to the first Saturday of February. Delayed by last year's floods, which put Kasetsart University under one metre of water for nearly a month, the annual agricultural fair is now being held in the university grounds and you have until Wednesday to check out what it has to offer.
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Make fruitful use of even the tiniest space
B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 01/07/2012
» Last week, ''Green Fingers'' discussed some fruit trees that will fit a small yard. Mango trees are usually big, but you can plant one if you want. Just make sure that the sapling has been propagated by marcotting, which means it has been rooted from a mature plant. It will therefore be easier to fashion into a small tree than a sapling which has been grown from seed.
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